The AFL fined Brisbane $2000 yesterday over McConnell's involvement in the incident in which Peverill pushed him to the ground after he tried to get to injured Lion Anthony Corrie.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said medical staff should attend to an injured player as quickly as practicable but also exhibit care in approaching players.

He said McConnell's actions in grabbing Peverill's jumper and pushing him away were "unnecessary and inflammatory".

At the tribunal on Tuesday, Peverill said he mistook McConnell for a Lions player.

Peverill was fined $3500, with tribunal chairman Brian Collis suggesting the league adopt a protocol for medical staff to communicate with players.

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Demetriou told radio station 3AW yesterday that more could be done to distinguish medical staff on the field.

"There probably is a legitimate argument to try and differentiate a doctor from some of the other staff - eg, the physio and so forth," he said.

Describing the Peverill-McConnell incident as rare, Demetriou said doctors were normally given a clear passage on the field.

"In the main all our players are aware that they [doctors] have a priority, as do umpires and everyone on the football field," he said. "It's worked pretty well - on the weekend we had one isolated incident and for whatever reason there was a scuffle . . . and it perhaps got out of hand."